On May 2-3, 2024, researchers involved with IN-CORE and the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE) came together for their semi-annual meeting to share their research, updates on community partnerships, and present future plans for IN-CORE. As the Center’s 10-year collaboration with NIST approaches its end in 2025, CoE looks back at its progress and looks to the future as the CoE expands its capabilities through a non-profit under Project IN-CORE.

Terri McAllister, Head of the Community Resilience Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), shared how disaster events have shaped how we think of community resilience and how “a local impact can have a national impact, and even an international impact.” In 2010, NIST identified a need for tools that would support communities in making short-term and long-term planning and resilience decisions that could integrate not just the physical impacts of hazards, but also the social and economic impacts.

Terri stated that “resilience goes beyond [planning before a hazard] event and the immediate response after an event, but also includes the recovery — and the science of recovery has been a big part of what this Center’s been focusing on.”

That focus led to the development of the IN-CORE resilience modeling platform. John van de Lindt, Co-Director of IN-CORE and the CoE showed how much science is behind IN-CORE: to date, there have been 207 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 17 PhD dissertations, 27 post-doctoral scholars, 14 book chapters, 1 seven-year longitudinal study, and 3 successful community partnerships.